As the conflict between Iran and Israel intensifies, there is a lot of noise about the imminent outbreak of a sixth Middle East war. Someone began to look back at the history of the first 5 Middle East wars and found that the biggest winner was Jordan, and the biggest loser was Egypt.
Jordan has always been at the heart of the Middle East conflict and was once the closest enemy to the Israelis, keeping Jews awake at night. But after four Middle East wars, Egypt was completely destroyed, and it had to shake hands with Israel and make peace.
The King of Jordan is with the Prime Minister of Israel
Although Jordan did not establish diplomatic relations with Israel until 1994, it did not play a role in the fifth Middle East war to maintain neutrality, so that Israel could avoid the dilemma of being attacked from the enemy on its back and could fight Lebanon and Syria with peace of mind.
As a result of his success in establishing the image of a peacemaker, many peace talks in the Middle East have been held in Jordan since then.
However, as Qatar's economic strength grows, the trend of secularization in the country has become more and more obvious, and it is more and more trusted and welcomed by Western countries. So since the nineties of the last century, the label of Middle East peacemaker began to shift from Jordan to Qatar, and it also won the approval of Israel and the United States.
When Hamas became the most active force in China, Qatar's mediation role became more important and its neutrality was more confirmed. After the United States declared Hamas a terrorist organization, only Qatar was able to accommodate the presence of senior Hamas cadres with the tacit approval of the United States and Israel.
But after the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Qatar has borne a lot of infamy. Not only the United States and Israel complained that Qatar did not remain neutral, but even Hamas lost trust in Qatar.
And at this moment, Turkey is welcoming the visit of Hamas's top management with open hands. Hamas, for its part, also praised Turkey's importance and centrality in resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
As a result of the attacks by US lawmakers, Qatar has become concerned about its own security, forcing a comprehensive assessment of its mediation role, and it is very likely that it will fully withdraw from or reduce its mediation role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the future.
It is clear that Qatar is a beauty in the United States, helping Turkey to take over the important negotiations in the Middle East and create a third pole in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia and Iran. And Qatar has never worried that its political influence will disappear, because the US Central Theater Command is still within its own territory, and the United States still needs to play the role of a mouthpiece.